Learning Analytics @ OLL
Jasper Ginn
17/10/2016
Core Activities
Learning Analytics
Support professors and practitioners in improving/optimizing/enhancing lesson materials by using a wide variety of data and tools.
- OLL team
- Professors
- TA's
- …
Example: Time-on-Task in Video's
Example: In-video actions
Example: Infographic
Example: Annual Report
Research
Research online learning together with a wide variety of researchers/faculties. Provide technical assistance to (pre)-process, analyze and store data.
- Academic researchers
- In-house
- Outside researchers (reproducibility)
- Coursera community
- Academic researchers
Papers
Van der Sluis, Frans, Jasper Ginn, and Tim Van der Zee. 2016. Explaining Student Behavior at Scale: The Influence of Video Complexity on Student Dwelling Time. Proceedings of the Third (2016) ACM Conference on Learning@Scale. ACM, 2016.
Van der Zee, T., Ginn, J.H., and Van der Sluis, F., 2016. Improving the instructional design quality of educational videos in MOOCs. Coursera Partner Conference – Research track
[Currently writing] From content, via behaviour, to learning: How video complexity interacts with student dwell time to explain learning outcomes.
[Proposal] Finding the optimal level of mental effort for interest in and learning from videos.
[Internal report] Melita Tarisa. Best Practices in Video Content Design for Increased Student Engagement and learning.
Data Security, Management, Privacy
Secure, persistent storage of OLL data.
- Knowledge and advice on NL and EU legal frameworks in handling learner data.
- Responsible dissemination of learner data
- Reproducibility of research data
Architecture
Example: Shiny Dashboard I
Example: Shiny Dashboard II
Example: Data Management Policy
Tooling
Create open-source tools for the MOOC / Open Education community to help others who may not have expertise.
- Formalize own research tools
- Transparency
- Reproducibility
- Formalize own research tools
Examples: GitHub tools
Example: MOOC dashboard
